Penn State College Admissions Essay

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12. Is there a unique aspect of your application that should be considered by the admissions committee? (Maximum 75 words)
Since I was young, I was struggled try to learn how to do everything with one hand until the age of 12. Because of my disability, I was able to understand and sympathize for others who got hurt emotionally or physically at a very young age. I went from a carefree girl to a meticulous women who loves to observe people’s needs and help them without having them to say it.
13. Explain why you decided to apply to Penn State College of Medicine. (Maximum 75 words)
When I first moved to the America, I’ve only acknowledged Penn State as a hospital. At the age of 16, when I was taken driving lessons, I went to Penn State for the
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It was a heart and vascular institute which has lots of the field terminologies that I’ve limited knowledge of. Beside from requiring good listening and typing skills, they also required a strong cardiovascular terminologies. My first day at training doesn’t go smoothly as I expected. Because I didn’t memorize the terms thoroughly, in addition because of the pace that the doctor took round, I was taken by surprise and stumbled behind a few time tried to get everything the doctor said words by words as fast as I could. In the end, I didn’t quite make it. Luckily enough I have a scribe leader who was trained me, thus we didn’t waste time and get all the patients’ daily progress reports done. After that day, I set a goal for myself to memorize all the necessary terms before my next shift. I spent a whole week making flashcard and tried my best to remember all the terms and their abbreviations. I also took a typing practice test consists of the medical terms to improve my typing speech and get me ready for the real job. During my shift the following week I was able to catch up and abbreviate terminology to match up with the pace of the doctor. I learned from the experience that no matter how hard is it, if I try hard enough, I can succeed on

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